The daughter of legendary Israeli singer Tsvika Pick married the filmmaker in 2018.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has become a father for the first time as his Israeli wife Daniella Pick gave birth to a baby boy Saturday in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, according to a Pnai Plus magazine report.

Tarantino, 56, who is not Jewish, married Pick, 36, in 2018 in a Reform Jewish ceremony after an eight-year on and off relationship. She is the daughter of one of Israel’s most famous musicians and composers, Tsvika Pick, and is a singer in her own right.

She has a prolific following on Instagram as a model and received a minor part in her husband’s latest movie, “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.”

The 2019 film won the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice awards for best motion picture in January, with Tarantino taking home first prize from both for the original screenplay. When he stood at the podium with his statuette at the Golden Globes ceremony, he thanked his wife, saying, “Toda, geveret [Thank you, madam in Hebrew], I love you.”

The couple have rented an apartment in one of the most upscale neighborhoods in the country, Ramat Aviv Gimmel. In an interview with Yediot Ahronot last month, he said he loved being in Israel and that the security situation did not bother him.

“Really, my life here is so wonderful,” he said, adding, “I love the country and the people are really nice, very nice to me, and they seem excited that I’m here.”

When asked about the rocket threat from Gaza, he said, “I’m not scared at all. Like everyone else here, I don’t really notice it.”

The filmmaker admitted at the time that his Hebrew is not yet up to snuff, but the upcoming birth would encourage him to take the language more seriously.

“Obviously, I’m going to learn. I don’t want my boy or girl to speak a language I can’t understand,” he said.

Tarantino has spoken often of retiring after making one more movie, so that he has an even 10 in his repertoire, although he would continue to write screenplays and TV series.

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“I want to thank you so much and my wife who’s watching from Tel Aviv, who’s pregnant with my very first child. Toda, geveret [Thank you, madam in Hebrew], I love you,” Tarantino said.

By World Israel News Staff

Legendary filmmaker and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino made sure to give a shout-out in Hebrew to his Israeli wife after winning the Best Screenplay category for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at the 77th annual Golden Globes Awards on Sunday.

“I want to thank you so much and my wife who’s watching from Tel Aviv, who’s pregnant with my very first child. Toda, geveret [Thank you, madam in Hebrew], I love you,” Tarantino said.

Shortly afterward Daniella Pick posted a photo of Tarantino on her Instagram account and wrote, “Overjoyed and so proud of my husband (also for his Hebrew!) @onceinhollywood”

Pick starred in a minor role in Tarantino’s winning film as Daphna Ben-Cobo, a character seen alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

Tarantino, 56, and Pick, 35, were first introduced to one another in 2009 when the director was promoting his film “Inglourious Basterds” in Israel.

For eight years the two dated on and off, and in June 2017 the couple was engaged.

Tarantino, who is not Jewish, and Pick were married by a Reform rabbi in Nov. 2018,  and in August, the two announced that they are expecting their first child.

In November, they leased an 80,000 shekel per month, two-floor, 500-square-meter house in northern Tel Aviv.

According to Ynet, the two attended a Chanukah kids show in Tel Aviv featuring Tarantino’s father-in-law, Israeli musician Tsvika Pick.

Tarantino has been on the record many times saying that he plans on retiring after making a 10th movie.

It seems like he is sticking to the plan, as he told Deadline backstage, “The whole idea is to live and want more; the old vaudevillian way of going out. I look at the idea of a ten-film filmography where I spent the last 30 years where I gave everything that I had — then dropping the mic. I’ll write plays, write TV, but the filmography will stand.”

Meanwhile, Jewish director Sam Mendes took home a Golden Globe for Best Director for the epic World War I drama “1917.”

“I’d like to dedicate this to my grandfather. He signed up for the First World War. He was age 17. And I hope he’s looking down on us. And I fervently hope it never, ever happens again. Thank you very much,” Mendes said during his acceptance speech.

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In August, the couple announced that they are expecting their first child.

By World Israel News Staff

Legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his Israeli wife Daniella Pick have leased a house in Israel, reports Globes.

According to the report, their 80,000 shekel per month, two-floor, 500-square-meter house is located close to Kikar Hamedina park in northern Tel Aviv.

Tarantino, 56, and Pick, 35, were first introduced to one another in 2009 when the director was promoting his film Inglourious Basterds in Israel, reported The Daily Mail at the time.

That was not the “Kill Bill” director’s first visit to Israel. He visited the country in 2016 to accept the lifetime achievement award for his contribution to cinema at the 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival.

“Thank you very, very much for making me feel so well at home, and I am having a fantastic time, may God bless you all,” he said during his acceptance speech.

For eight years the two dated on and off, and in June 2017 the couple were engaged. According to People, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman attended their engagement party.

Tarantino, who is not Jewish, and Pick were married by a Reform rabbi in Nov. 2018, reported Kveller at the time.

The “Pulp Fiction” director spoke about his married life in a recent interview with People.

“I can honestly say that my taking stock is different than it would have been three years ago, four years ago or even 10 years ago,” he told the entertainment magazine.

In August, the two announced that they are expecting their first child, reported multiple entertainment news outlets.

Pick starred in a minor role in Tarantino’s latest film, “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.”

Tarantino has been on the record many times saying that he plans on retiring after making a 10th movie.

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